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http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=meet_your_meat&Player=wm&speed=_med
Warning, this is very graphic. Don't view if you can't handle it, are already a vegetarian so you know the whole deal, or you want to keep pretending it's not this bad.
To get my feelings out about it, I'm going to just post the comment I made in my friend's journal who had that link up.
Oh my God. I can't remember a time I've cried this hard. Ever. The whole time I was watching that video, I felt so sick that I wanted to exit, but I reminded myself that choosing ignorance isn't the way to go and I need to know what's happening.
As hard as it will be to give up my drumsticks, I think I can do it. Because now that's all I'm going to see in my head when I look at meat. But at the same time...I don't feel like that's enough. I didn't buy meat that often anyway because I'm broke, it's just not going to make a big effect. I mean this is still going to happen to these animals regardless. I still think I've been "saved" in the vegetarian sense, I'm not saying oh well I might as well eat meat anyway...but it's the treatment that bothers me. Not the fact that animals are killed for food. But the shit they go through before they're killed, and the way some of them are killed. If I knew THIS chicken I'm eating had been raised on Billy Bob's farm, I'd be able to eat it. But in these fucking FACTORIES? Where they do this shit to them? I mean we all know they're injected with hormones and slaughtered. But we had no idea about this....
But like I said, not eating meat isn't enough. Why isn't anything being done to make them stop doing this? How are there so many animal's rights organizations and we still can't manage to get this made illegal? What can we do? It just hurts me to my core and just not eating meat isn't enough to make that go away. But I don't know what to do.
Warning, this is very graphic. Don't view if you can't handle it, are already a vegetarian so you know the whole deal, or you want to keep pretending it's not this bad.
To get my feelings out about it, I'm going to just post the comment I made in my friend's journal who had that link up.
Oh my God. I can't remember a time I've cried this hard. Ever. The whole time I was watching that video, I felt so sick that I wanted to exit, but I reminded myself that choosing ignorance isn't the way to go and I need to know what's happening.
As hard as it will be to give up my drumsticks, I think I can do it. Because now that's all I'm going to see in my head when I look at meat. But at the same time...I don't feel like that's enough. I didn't buy meat that often anyway because I'm broke, it's just not going to make a big effect. I mean this is still going to happen to these animals regardless. I still think I've been "saved" in the vegetarian sense, I'm not saying oh well I might as well eat meat anyway...but it's the treatment that bothers me. Not the fact that animals are killed for food. But the shit they go through before they're killed, and the way some of them are killed. If I knew THIS chicken I'm eating had been raised on Billy Bob's farm, I'd be able to eat it. But in these fucking FACTORIES? Where they do this shit to them? I mean we all know they're injected with hormones and slaughtered. But we had no idea about this....
But like I said, not eating meat isn't enough. Why isn't anything being done to make them stop doing this? How are there so many animal's rights organizations and we still can't manage to get this made illegal? What can we do? It just hurts me to my core and just not eating meat isn't enough to make that go away. But I don't know what to do.